Elcrost - Hunters of Dawn & Eventide Lyrics


I laid beneath a savagery dawn

Beneath the welkin of nymphs and fawns

Above, the flocks are demented in glee

They muted the cries and silenced their pleas

I stood upward on companions and foes

A mountain of bones, deep red overflowed

The forest grew silent, empyrean grey

A cinder reflection, behold, the prey

Striding ablaze on golden wagon

The eight-legged horse pushed forth

Pacing like lightning and thunder

Ulf’s piercing howls lacerated the sky, drip, drip alveolus

Trampled to death, for a thousand-fold

The talon speared forth through plains of gold

“Vagrants, Surrenders, Deceivers and Prey

Heed the choirs of bane, a hymn of dismay”

Heed! Heed!

The sound of silence

Heed! Heed!

The call of Woden, freely roamed in the hunt

Cradling affection, heart-bounded in passion

Prideful retreat turned disgraceful regression

A Jolnir season for cowardly souls

Woden harked, unjust with blindfolded woe

Witness me, my amber heart

Now etched with lovers’ lamenting loss

Let us rejoin in the north of winter

Please take our bones, ‘fore gone black hunters

Heed! Heed!

The sound of deceit

Heed! Heed!

The caws of misery

Let our bodies rejoin in tapestry

Let our souls divide freely

Let us savor this lifeless sojourn

In frozen heart of Niflheim we burn

Let our bodies rejoin in tapestry

Let our souls divide freely

Intertwining in glooming shadows

Decaying in the twilight afterglow

Take to heart this unfair judgement

Oh, craven-born! Oh, fair-blood gallant!

Rapid gates of horns and ivory

Winding the House of Sleep, in trance

Take the path of dream or righteous

Diluted shadows of things once precious

Pathos and Dolor, let open your way

Thee, wayfarer, what’s left to say?

Rape the vestal, rape the clean

Amidst the hunting in day-breaking spring

Grace the fallen with crowns of thorns

Let immortals adore with crowns for none

Blood, fire, death and silence

Flaying for vain and falsified credence

A memory of maiden faded like yesterday

In Eventide awake

Mouth bursting with laughter

Laughing beneath my gallows pole

Biting my lips, let crimson wine bleed

For no masters, for no hunters